I have a woman at my job whose boyfriend will be leaving for the navy and two weeks and requested a cake. She said she will leave all the ideas up to me, the design, the flavor everything. My dilema is I don't know much about the Navy except that I love their uniforms 
. and would love some help with ideas from anyone willing. Thanks In Advance
Do an image search on Navy....look for a good picture of the emblem which is an anchor....try fbtc....or trace onto wax paper use decorators gel fill in with bc...hope this helps. MC
You may think I'm crazy.. But could you do a cake that looked like the hat they wear with the uniform? Shouldn't be difficult finding a picture of that and from the looks of your pictures it would be an easy cake!
Dawn
There is also a few great cakes with the navy sailor cap on them in the galleries. I think that is a way fun and cool cake!
You could do one of the sailor hats pretty easily. Just use a half ball pan and then use fondant{cut in a ribbon type strip}around it. Do you know what I mean?That would be easy and you could add it onto a sheet cake. Or you could make a denim type shirt with the hat.And maybe have his last name on the shirt. I don't know if you could duplicate the 2 fish type logo to put on it somewhere. My step dad was in the navy and he had like 3 different uniforms. The basic denim dungaree uniform, the white uniform and the tan uniform{which he rarely wore}.
You may think I'm crazy.. But could you do a cake that looked like the hat they wear with the uniform? Shouldn't be difficult finding a picture of that and from the looks of your pictures it would be an easy cake!
It's in the gallery.. TamiAZ did the cake and it's gorgeous!!! I just did the search for Navy and it came up.
Dawn
Here are a few Navy symbols...
You could make a sheet cake then add a round cake in the center with one of the symbol on it . The on the sheet cake make boat ancors in the corners and add rope border. in a red white and blue design or just gold-yellow...
Symbols:
http://www.navy.mil.za/desktop/dt_images/SA%20Navy%20Badge.gif
http://www.systranfederal.com/images/SFC-Navy-Seal.jpg
Here are some ideas..... use the tshirt pan to make the uniform or here are some pictures that I have found somewhere.... not mine
Cakemommy just did an awesome navy cake!! It's AWESOME !
I had to post the gallery so you could take a peek...
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&pos=-33605&osCsid=e7af63b9f9b749285ed8eb6fa348fc7d
You might pm her as well I'm sure she could you a few pointers!!
Okay I'm so totally blushing!!! I just had to check out this topic because Navy, of course!!!!! 
Is he going to boot camp? Doing a cake of the Dixie hat or "cover" as they call it, would be great!!!!! You've got a great example right here on CC to go from!!!!! You could say "Great Lakes Here I come!" "Anchors' Away"
Let us know what you decide!!! I'll be very excited to see it!!!
Good luck!
Thanks guys for all the help. I think I want to do the uniform idea maybe also with the sailor hat. Do you know where I can get pics of the three Navy uniforms?
You may want to find out what he is going to be doing in the navy. Is he an officer or enlisted? Going to boot camp or an "A" school. If he is an officer and you make an enlisted uniform or vice versa that would be a MAJOR faux paux (sp) Will he be on surface ships, planes, subs? Those are all ideas that you could use. If you know what command he is going to you could make a cake of his commands patch. With more details of where he is going and what rank/rate he is would really help you decide what to do.
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